Hundreds of prisoners escaped from a prison in Afghanistan's south on Monday through a tunnel dug by Taliban insurgents, officials said, a "disaster" for the Afghan government and a setback for foreign forces planning to start a gradual withdrawal within months.
While I tend to suspect that bribery rather than diligent tunnel-digging over months led to the escape, either way a lot of killers are on the loose. This is a setback and the enemy is reinforced.
Still, Taliban are on the move to help the escapees scatter, and if we can put resources into the chase, we might be able to kill or capture the bulk of the escapees and a good number of Taliban helping the escapees.
So I'll call this an operation in progress that could yet be turned to a Coalition victory. We shall see.
